Vic Reiner

Professor School of Mathematics University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455 Pronouns: he, him, his

Office: 256 Vincent Hall Phone: (612) 625-6682 Dept. FAX: (612) 626-2017 e-mail: reiner@umn.edu Our academic calendars

• Teaching
  • Class syllabi
  • REU information and past REU reports.
    Sadly, our long-running REU will almost surely NOT be running this coming summer 2025,
    due to a funding gap. If you know a source that might be interested in funding
    one of the oldest and most respected REUs in the world, please let us know!
  • advising philosophy and expectations for my grad advisees.
  • A syllabus supplement giving general info about my courses.
  • The Nephroid Lab, a fun tutorial/example
    in elementary computational algebraic geometry (not guaranteed to work).
  • CLA math capstone (senior project)
    • info page from the School of Math
    • my guidelines,
      
    • resource list and capstone contract.

• Research
  • NSF RTG in Combinatorics at Minnesota
    • ... which supported our exciting conference OPAC2020, held May 16-20, 2022
    • ... and here is our older RTG page
      
  • research interests
  • some papers
  • some talks
  • a few favorite open problems
  • students, current and former
  • math latin honors theses,
    
  • U. Minn. Combinatorics Group,
    Current Combinatorics Seminar schedule,
    Past seminars archive,
    Seminar list-server.
    The seminar organizers for 2024-25 are Shiyun Wang and Anna Weigandt. Contact them if you are interested in speaking.
    

• Editorial work
  • I'm on the editorial board of these journals which are Diamond Open Access,
    that is, with no charges for authors or readers:
    • Algebraic Combinatorics
      (see this press release, Inside Higher Ed article, Europ. Math. Soc. newsletter article, Directory of OA Journals profile)
    • Combinatorial Theory
      (see this press release, this video interview with one of the editors, in German with subtitles)
    • Confluentes Mathematici
      (published by Centre Mersenne in Grenoble, similar to Algebraic Combinatorics above)
    These journals are supported by The Combinatorics Consortium. See this brief FPSAC 2023 talk for some info.
  • I'm also an editor for
    

• Research software
  • TUTTE- C code written by UROP student Michael Barany,
    to compute the Tutte polynomial of a matrix
    over the integers or finite fields of prime order.
  • CHEMOGALE- some JAVA applets related to phase diagrams
    and geochemistry, produced by Sam Peterson.

• Research diagrams!
  Lucky am I to have friends who can get computers to draw ...
  • the Hasse diagram for the higher Stasheff-Tamari order
    on the triangulations of a cyclic 3-dimensional polytope with 7 vertices,
    (produced by Jörg Rambau).
    
  • the graph of all reduced words for the longest element in the
    rank 3 finite Coxeter groups, that is, the orthogonal symmetries
    of these regular solids:
    H3 - dodecahedron/icosahedron
    B3 - cube/octahedron
    A3 - tetrahedron
    
    (produced by Rob Edman).

• Curriculum vitae (not necessarily up-to-date)

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